Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-06-17
SIDEWALK PRATTLE.

~ No news from the surveyors.
Local news scarcer than ever.
Heavy rains every day this week.
B. F. Morris took band of mares to
Colfax last week.
Wallace Scott is adding q new wing
to his residence at Mt. Idaho.
The Fourth will be celebrated in
Grangeville. Come one and all.
Fred Cook is up from Lewiston cam
] vassing for Frank Bros. Implements.
\ j. F. Mclean has put a nobby picket
fence around his Grangeville residence.
w. w. Bowman is building a new
dwelling house on his ranch west Of
town.
Joe c. Stephens has put lot of inn
provments ON his ranch near town this
spring.
A meeting of the trustees of the G. r.
G. A. is called for Saturday (to-morrow)
evening at the college building at s
o'clock.
Five foreign agricultural implement
dealers have been canvassing the prairie
all this week.
Capt. Hawley has erected sixty foot
liberty pole on the hotel corner of Main
and Meadow streets.
Iron clad note, and receipt books
quartz location notices and warranty-
deeds for sale at this Office.
Mrs. Baldwin arrived here Monday to
visit her son Horace who has been seri-
ously sick but is now recovering.
J. J. Manuel will reopen his saloon
at Mt. Idaho July l, with q fine new
stock of imported liquors and sundries.
Doug Holton was up from the river
last week rounding up some beef cattle
for Bailey Chsmberlain's Warrens meat
| market.
Mr.. 8. w. Smith was out from Elk
city during the week and reports that
the mining season this year promises to
be good.
The prairie never looked better, and
the indications are that it never har-
vested heavier crop than the one now
| growing.
The freshet took off the aprons and
some of the stringers of the wire bridge
and it will be two weeks before it will
be passable.
Commencing with this week the
Warrens mail is again running ON sum-
mer schedule time, making the round
trip in six days.
| hONEl IL 1UANs-LOW I6J6 Vi lutSI0 0ob
long or short time. Real estate security.
No delay. Apply to J. W. PARKER,
Grangeville, Idaho. IT.
Henry C. Miller has purchased Mr..
Markham's milk wagon and route and
Grangeville consumers.
The prohibition contest is waxing red
hot in Oregon, and If successful the
| rao,,It hf tnb aI uni int hxr
the adjoining territories.
| Hon. L. P. Brown is having his band
of 4, 500 sheep sheared at Cottonwood.
A cayote chased Gov. Ward over
fence last Friday as he was herding the
flock.
The last drove of hogs for Warrens
had to be ferried across the river in y
skiff, owing to the wire bridge being
inn passable. The boys say it was hard
job crossing them.
Frank Smith has opened the trail be-
tween Mt. Idaho and Warrens and the
summer travel over it has already be-
gun. John Clark's pack-train made the
first trip to Florence.
The o. r. & N. Co., have made q
special rate on ore shipments from Lew
iston to Frisco in car load lots of $1,000
per ton. 1t is probable that several lots
| will be sent from here.
| Commissioner Jones dropped in Sat-
urday and remarked that the weather
this spring and summer is an exact du-
plicate of the season of 70 when the
prairie produced its heaviest crop.
The owner of those hogs who are
roofing around our poplar trees is here
| by notified that the new code is now in
force and that it is misdemeanor for
hogs to be permitted to run at large.
Judge Shumway returned from Salem
Saturday. He reports the fruit crop in
the Willamette valley very light, and
denies the soft impeachment concern
ing the collection of napkins at the c.
- hotel.
This is to notify the public of Camas
prairie that will be at Grangeville on
or about June II. Those desiring first
class photographs must come early as l
will positively not remain after the 4th
of July. j. w. RIGGS, Photographer.